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For any regional counsel, coping with a large number of different markets, each with their distinctive commercial, regulatory and legal drivers, is often the biggest challenge of the job. For Air Products and Chemicals’ Thomas Kenyon, those difficulties are compounded by a role which sees him overseeing the Americas and the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) regions. This is all the more impressive given the significance of the matters he typically oversees. In a role as geographically broad-ranging as Kenyon’s, helping business adapt to a patchwork of regulations and market norms becomes essential. His work has become widely known across Latin America in particular, and many sources praised his strengths. Nominators highlighted Kenyon’s ‘deep familiarity with international regulation’ and ‘ability to translate regulatory expectations across a number of jurisdictions into a coherent plan of action for the business in its global markets’. One nominator, the managing partner at a leading firm in Chile, comments that Kenyon, ‘has built a quality legal team and demonstrated versatility and adaptability to balance legal dynamics with high execution and compliance standards’. Previously a litigation and anti-trust partner at law firm Dechert, Kenyon joined Air Products as litigation counsel in 2003. In 2013 he became assistant general counsel for the Americas and was given additional responsibility for EMEA two years later. In 2017 he was appointed general counsel to both regions.